Hosting Services
Practical advice for budding bloggers and webmasters — what kind of web-hosting is appropriate for you?
Love of Math
This is another short series of posts on love of math — that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts. This article will be published in Wilmott Magazine.
Top Philosophy Blog
Unreal Blog has been chosen as one of the top 50 philosophy blogs in the world!
Topical, WordPress, Computers
We Are Moving…
Unreal Blog has moved to a new powerful server (and sent out thousands of annoying emails during the process). Here is how it happened.
Topical, Computers
Cloud Computing
About Dropbox, a cloud computing service that you will find extremely useful — if you work with multiple computers.
My First Car and My First Ticket
Of my first car and my first encounter with the American legal system
How to be a Good Parent
Practical advice to my younger readers.
The Unreal Universe
I recently made my first book available on Amazon. I thought I would post this article, which is a good summary of the book. This article was published in a magazine in Singapore.
Topical, Life and Death, Philosophy
Death — Last Words
The sixth and last post on the philosophy of death looks at the paradox or the absurdity of living at all, given that there is a death looming, and tries to find a sliver lining.
Topical, Life and Death, Philosophy
Does the World Go on?
The fifth post on the philosophy of death looks at another notion of continuity. Even for those who believe in no soul or god of any kind, the physical world is real and continuous. No sane person would think the world comes to an end with his death. Then again, nobody has accused me of sanity.
Primal Soul
What is soul, and why do we need one? Philosophy of death is surely incomplete without a discussion of this matter. Here is the fourth post in this series.
Topical, Life and Death, Philosophy
From Here to Eternity
The severity of a pain is not merely its intensity, but its duration as well. Given that death puts a definitive end to our worldly durations, how does it affect our notion of punishment commensurate with crime? Here is the third post on the philosophy of death.